Park Mead Primary

Mrs Bell

4BR (Mon - Tue)

Mrs Richardson

4BR (Wed - Fri)

Mrs Gilbertson

4G (Mon- Fri)

Mrs Davies

4G / 4BR (Mon - Fri am)

Spring 1

We hope everybody had a fantastic Christmas Break. We are excited to return to school on Tuesday, 6th January 2026! We have an exciting spring term, including exciting topics across the curriculum and a trip to Fishbourne Roman Villas to support our learning in History.

We have an open-door policy, so please come and talk to us if you have any questions, worries, or concerns.

Drop-off and collection times:

Drop-off: 8:40 am (Register taken at 8:50 am)

Collection: 3:20 pm

Daily Equipment:

Please ensure your child brings their homework diary and a reading book in each day.
They are also welcome to bring in a small pencil case with a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, black handwriting pen, purple pen and colouring pencils.
As we are an all-weather school, children should bring a coat with them each day, as they will be outside at playtimes unless the weather is terrible.

Dates for Spring Term

January

Tues 6th - return to school

Tues 13th - 4G swimming lessons 9:40am – 10:40am begin (11 lessons, finishing 21st April)

Fri 23rd - PTFA Family Bingo

Wed 28th -Year 4 Children’s concert at Glive

Febuary

Thurs 5th - Year 4 trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace

Mon 16th - Fri 20th - February half term

Mon 23rd - Young Voices, O2 Arena

Thurs 26th - Year 4 First Aid training, sports hall

Fri 27th - Non-uniform day (exchange of £1)

March

Tues 3rd - KS2 House Cross Country Event, school field

Fri 14th - PTFA Panto evening performance

Sat 15th - PTFA Panto matinee and evening performance

Fri 20th - PTFA Easter tuck shop (Year 6 hosting)

Fri 27th - Break up for Easter

PE days

4BR: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4G: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

In Y4 the children will be having swimming lessons. Each class will have a total of 11 sessions each at Cranleigh School

This term 4G will then swim every Tuesday morning, starting on 13th January until 21st April

Top-up swimming lessons will take place for invited children. On swimming days, children are to come to school dressed in their PE kits, with their swimming things in a separate bag (goggles are optional but recommended). Please ensure that children have long hair tied back, ready for the lesson.

Maths We follow the White Rose scheme of learning.

More information is available here: White Rose Website

Spring 1

Multiplication and Division( B )

Pupils will be taught to:

recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together 3 numbers
recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using a formal written layout
solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two-digit numbers by 1 digit, integer scaling problems, and harder correspondence problems, such as n objects are connected to m objects.

Measurement - Length and perimeter

Pupils should be taught to:

convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre]
measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
estimate, compare and calculate different measures
solve problems and explain reasoning

Maths homework :

Homework sessions will be set on TTRockstars.

This will be 15 minutes on Garage each week plus 2 soundcheck games. Garage helps them to learn the tables they are not yet confident with, and Soundcheck prepares them for the Multiplication Tables Check. Once the set homework is complete, children can play any of the games for additional practice, including 'Jamming' to practise specific tables without the timer; 'Studio' to increase speed and Rock Status; and 'Soundcheck' to prepare for the summer term times tables test.

https://ttrockstars.com/

A maths homework sheet will also be sent home each Friday to be returned the following Friday. This will be additional arithmetic practice to aid children's fluency and familiarity with written methods that have been learned at school.

English

As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.

Spring 1

We are basing our first fictional around the book Mama Panya's Pancakes. We will utilise the key skills we have been developing so far this year to create a short story of our own, full of atmosphere and rich description, to engage and capture the reader's attention. The writing skills we are developing in this unit are include using dialogue.

Conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositions to express time, place, or cause, using commas after fronted adverbials, creating paragraphs to group and organize ideas, and using prepositions to show where things are are ongoing skills.

In the second part of this half-term, we will focus on developing non-fiction writing with newspaper reports.

Class Novel: In class, we will begin reading Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo. This tells an important story in an age appropriate manner, however it may open up some conversations at home about equality, racism and its history.

English homework:

Reading: children should read daily and record in their homework diary.

Spelling: at least 5 games on Spelling Shed each week (Spellings will be updated each Monday.)

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/